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packing houses, and abandoned just at a point when 

 facts were being disclosed which should be of advan- 

 tage to unorganized labor on the farms and the con- 

 suming public throwing light upon the internal 

 workings of the big packing concerns in our meat in- 

 dustry? If present laws were inadequate, why should 

 not Congress, then in session, have immediately, by 

 amending them, furnished a remedy? Has the lamp 

 of the legislative Diogenes gone out in a search for 

 " combination in restraint of trade," or is it because he 

 feels that it is only a bunch of unorganized farmers 

 who are making complaint the consumers being ig- 

 norant of the source of their trouble, the misinformed, 

 subsidized or misguided press assuring them that it is 

 to be found in the greed of the farmers? 



